Our favourite holiday party drinks

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Top with a dollop of whipped cream, and drizzle caramel sauce over the top to garnish.

Best signature cocktails and mocktails

When you throw a holiday party, you want your guests to see a cocktail circulating the room and think, "I have to try that!" These types of signature cocktails should be beautiful and delicious, like these:

Holi-Tonic

Ingredients:

2 bags (12 ounces each) fresh cranberries

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

1-1/4 cups Plymouth gin

3 ounces Q Tonic per serving (added separately)

1 Mint sprig per serving

Directions:

Bring cranberries, sugar and water to a steady simmer in a saucepan.

Stir occasionally until berries begin to pop.

Drain liquid through a fine-mesh sieve into a pitcher.

Set aside half the cranberries before forcing the remaining berries through the sieve.

Discard the solids remaining in the sieve.

Add the cranberries you set aside earlier to the pitcher.

Chill the pitcher about two hours, until the contents are cold.

Add the gin and stir.

Fill highball glasses with ice.

Pour 3 ounces cranberry mixture into each glass, and top off with 3 ounces Q Tonic.